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• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Author/About the Book
• Preface
• 1. On Your Mark . . .
• Writing Versus Ought-to-Be Writing
• Looking Ahead
• Summing Up: Jump-Start
• 2. Get Going
• Get Set
• Go!
• Following a Writing Plan
• A Workable Writing Plan: Your Statement of Purpose
• A Workable Writing Plan: Your Table of Contents
• A Workable Writing Plan: Your Story and Voice
• Readers and Writers
• Early Writing
• Freewriting
• The Methodical Approach
• Where to Start the Account
• Possible Places to Begin
• Starting With Method
• Starting With Description
• Continuing Into Analysis and Interpretation
• A Reminder About Purposes and Delimitations
• The Problem of Focus
• Problems of Sorting and Organizing Data
• Summing Up: Putting Ideas to the Test
• 3. Keep Going
• Stay With It
• The “Empty Folders” Approach
• Keeping Up the Momentum
• When It’s Time for Details, Get Them Right the First Time
• Developing a Style Sheet
• Keeping Track of References
• Keeping Track of Bits and Pieces
• Getting Feedback
• Summing Up: Tips to Keep You Going
• 4. Linking Up
• The “Lit Review”
• Making the Link to Theory
• Roles That Theory Can Play
• Linking Up Through Method
• Research “Techniques” in Qualitative Inquiry
• How to Represent Qualitative Strategies Graphically
• Conceptualizing Qualitative Approaches as a “Tree”
• Your Methods; Methodology
• Method or Theory as Narrative
• Coda
• Summing Up: Major Linking Activities
• 5. Tightening Up
• Descriptive Adequacy
• Packing More In
• Tossing More Out
• Reviewing for Content and Style
• Revising and Editing
• Becoming Your Own Editor
• Time—Your Silent Partner
• Other Ways to Edit
• Formal Editorial Assistance
• How Do You Conclude a Qualitative Study?
• Alternatives to “Concluding” a Study
• Summing Up
• 6. Finishing Up
• Major Parts of a Book (and Most Articles)
• The Title
• Front Matter
• Front Matter: Further Possibilities
• The Copy Editor and Other Main Text Issues
• The Back Matter
• Summing Up: Endgame
• 7. Getting Published
• Alternative Ways to Get in Print
• The Review Process
• On Not Getting Published
• Final Thoughts
• Appendix Applications
• Acknowledgments
• References and Select Bibliography
• Name Index
• Subject Index